AWS Engineer

• Job Title : AWS Engineer
• Location : Hanover NJ
• Mode : Hybrid
• Type : FTE ( no Subcontractor )
• Visa : No Sponsorship available

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Overall purpose of role

The Sr. Engineer – AWS is responsible for designing, building, and operating secure, scalable, and resilient cloud-based solutions on Amazon Web Services. This role provides technical leadership across cloud engineering initiatives, ensuring platforms and services meet enterprise standards for performance, reliability, cost efficiency, and security. The Senior Engineer partners closely with all application, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to enable modern engineering practices, accelerate cloud adoption, and support business-critical workloads through robust architecture, automation, and continuous improvement.

Key Accountabilities

• This role requires a wide variety of strengths and capabilities, including:
• BS/BA degree or equivalent experience
• Understanding of Agile development and extensive hands-on participation with SDLC life cycle
• Working proficiency with collaboration and tech documentation toolsets like workflows and use case diagrams.
• Ability to collaborate with high-performing teams and individuals throughout the firm to accomplish common goals
• Excellent communication skills to present the API vision to stakeholders both internal and 3rd party clients.
• Excellent analytical, communication, organizational and problem-solving skills coupled with a strong work ethic
• Ability to perform market research, observe trends and make recommendations for the Fintech API product.

Stakeholder Management and Leadership

To work across multiple phases of software development within a project as a team member or dealing with the most technically challenging assignments. This includes:

• Working directly with business areas to clarify detailed technical requirements.
• Designing, coding and unit testing the most complex software components for new or enhanced IT systems to a high level of quality, producing appropriate documentation.
• Providing technical support to business analyst/project managers and coaching to less experienced staff across a geographically dispersed teams
• Maintaining an expert level awareness of relevant software design techniques, development tools and processes, providing leadership in the use of these across the organization area.

Decision-making and Problem Solving

• Strong technical analytical skills are required to identify key trade-offs in solutions design and technology choices, analyze relevant problem spaces, define congruent solution spaces and design optimal technical solutions possessing flexibility sufficient to enable their evolution alongside the needs of the business.
• Consistent analytical skills required, always challenging and asking for the ‘why’ along with the ‘what’
• Leveraging banking skills to ensure appropriate challenge and curiosity to peers and delivery partners who may not come from a financial services background
• Strong judgement skills for the true risk assessment on controls or quality gaps. Ensuring an appropriate balance of conversation across experience, controls, speed to market, etc.

Risk and Control Objective

• Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.
• Person Specification
• Personal attributes essential to performing role including competencies, expertise, knowledge, and experience. Note: experience requirements must not be in the form of years (minimum or otherwise).

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• 4 year Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent subject or experience
• 6 years of experience in working with Software development teams.
• Ability to plan, deliver client integrations end-to-end from inception to the post-launch support with impeccable execution by working closely with internal and third party partners business stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of enterprise architectures, integration patterns, and API security.
• Ability to perform thorough competitive market research on Fintech products and aspects along with well versed with providing business reporting requirements and data analysis skills

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

• Extensive experience with presentation skills to champion our Fintech services/products in a wide variety of large forums including tech incubators, town halls, partner meetings, architecture forums, etc.
• Experience with Product Management and maintaining the product roadmap.
• Extensive experience in working with Scrum development teams, tools like Jira/Rally/Confluence/etc.
• Visualizations of integrations, user experience, workflows using tools like Visio / Draw.io / PowerPoint/ etc.
• Consumer Banking Industry domain experience would help a great deal